*💢 The Term Ibadaah*
Part - 2
❖❐ The Qur'anic Use of the Term
💢 On studying the Qur'an we find that, the word is used wholly in the three senses explained above, except that on occasion both the first and the second senses are implied, on others the second only, on still others the third only and, in yet other places, all the three. Here are examples of use in the first and second senses:
🔰"Then We sent Musa and his brother Harun, with clear proofs of their prophethood to the Pharaoh and his nobles, but they treated them with disdain because of haughtiness born of power. Should we? They said?: Believe in two mere humans like ourselves, and that too of a nation which is in bondage to us?" [al-Mu'minun 23/45-47];
🔰 "And the Pharaoh reminded Musa of having reared him from his childhood, (to which Musa replied): As for the obligation you remind me of, is it not a fact that happened only because you had made the Bani Isra'il your slaves (but for which fact I may never have come into your household)?" [ash-Shuara 26/18-23]
💢 The words abidun and abbadta employed respectively in the two Ayahs imply bondage, submission, and obedience. When the Pharaoh used the first word in respect of Musa (alaihe wa sallam)
💢 and Harun's nation, what he meant was that the Bani Isra'il were in bondage to the Egyptians and fully subservient to them. And, when Musa (alaihe wa sallam), used the second word in reply to the Pharaoh, he meant that the latter had enslaved the Bani Isra'il and made them do his bidding.
🔰"O you who believe! Eat of the clean and good things We have bestowed on you, and render due gratitude to Allah, if you do truly give ibadaah to Him alone." [al-Baqarah 2/172]
💢 The background of this ayah is that, in the pre-Islamic period, the Arabs imposed various kinds of restrictions upon themselves in the matter of eating and drinking, in deference to the dictate, of their priests or due to superstitions, which had come down from their ancestors.
💢 When, however, they embraced Islam, the Qur'an demanded that if they now really felt that they owed ibadaah to Allah alone, they should forget all those restrictions, and eat without hesitation all that was permitted by Islam.
💢 The idea, clearly, is that if they had now really submitted their will to that of Allah, they should shed all the taboos imposed by their priests or ancestors, and instead observe only the Islamic injunctions in the matter of eating and drinking.
"Say (O Prophet): Shall I tell you of a fate worse than this? It is the fate of those whom Allah placed under His curse, who drew His wrath upon themselves, and of whom many were turned into apes and swine, and who rendered ibadaah to Taghout." [al-Ma'idah 5/60];
"And We sent Prophets unto all the peoples (to teach them) to give their ibadaah to Allah and not to Taghout." [an-Nahl 16/36];
"And there are good tidings for those who gave up the ibadaah of Taghout and adopted that of Allah (instead)." [az-Zumar 39/17]
💢 In all these three ayahs, ibadaah of Taghout means bondage to any or all of what the latter term stands for, that is, every state or authority or leadership, etc., which, in transgression against Allah, makes its own word prevail in the land, whether by the use of force or intimidation or through temptation and so on.
💢 And according to the Qur'an to submit to the dictates of all such authority and do its bidding amounts to no less than the ibadaah of Taghout.
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